Aaron Copland could have sat in on the recording session of the first Nirvana album.Aaron Copland (1900–1990), "Bleach" (1989)

John Williams could tweet this post from his iPhone.John Towner Williams (1932-Present), Twitter (2006), iPhone (2007)

There you have it. Classical music has mostly happened in the last 300 years or so, along with a lot of other stuff that doesn't seem that old.

For more frame of reference, consider that "Canon In D," the oldest piece on http://www.kickassclassical.com, was composed 60 years after the Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock in 1620. And 40 of the 50 composers on our site were alive during and after the days of the "Wild West," which began with the California Gold Rush in 1848.

Bedřich Smetana (March 2, 1824 – May 12, 1884) could have (possibly) avoided the syphilis that killed him had he used the sweet invention of 1855, the rubber. Literally a condom made of rubber. Thank you Charles Goodyear, I salute your blimp, two ways.

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